Two separate photos of women from different Native American tribes inspired this work. The woman on the left is a Menominee from Wisconsin and the woman on the right is a Delaware from Oklahoma. It is unlikely they ever met but to me they form a pair, one angry and the other joyful. This gives the work a humorous quality despite its serious message that all our thoughts arise from the same undifferentiated ground of being, seen here as the darkness that connects the seemingly separate landscapes on which they stand. The physicist David Bohm called this underlying existence a great ocean of energy that gives forth the matter of our material world. It is the zero point field in physics and the mother of all things in the phenomenal world. Psychologically we mirror generation from an underlying existence because our unconscious mind is our internal zero point field and we each create our own emotional reality. We can respond positively or negatively to any situation and are also capable of modulating our responses, realizing the actions we choose shape our lives.

MOTHER OF ALL THINGSGraphite on paper, 30 x 40 in.and also as anArchival print, work in progress